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  1. Gleaners, devils and pits: Bolivian mining community films

    Gleaners, devils and pits: Bolivian mining community films

    Film screening and talk

    One of the most remarkable experiments in radical film pedagogy and media proletarianisation in Latin America cinema is the Miner's Film Workshop, held in...

  2. Energy Cafe: Becoming Prosumers

    Energy Cafe: Becoming Prosumers

    Navigating the Electricity Sector through Italy's Largest Energy Community

    Hosted by Lorenzo Sapochetti Community-led initiatives are increasingly seen as an effective means to transform our energy systems, empowering citizens to drive...

  3. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Christos Lynteris

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Christos Lynteris

    Zoonotic Transformations of a Pandemic Disease

    Between the 1890s and the 1950s, bubonic plague became the first disease in human history to lead to a global pandemic that was scientifically understood as...

  4. BFRB U & I: Collaboration, Charity and the Struggle for Care

    BFRB U & I: Collaboration, Charity and the Struggle for Care

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar with Dr Bridget Bradley (University of St Andrews)

    In this paper I describe ongoing collaborations with my research community and our recent work developing a charitable organisation. These efforts emerge from...

  5. Vitreous Visions: Histories of Glass as a Media Objects

    Vitreous Visions: Histories of Glass as a Media Objects

    Departmental Seminar with Dr Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal (St Andrews)

    This paper is part of a project that I am developing on the understudied history of glass as a media material. The project connects nineteenth-century media...

  6. Building Collaboration from the Ground Up: Centre for Sustainable Curating and Synthetic Collective

    Building Collaboration from the Ground Up: Centre for Sustainable Curating and Synthetic Collective

    Departmental Seminar with Professor Kirsty Robertson

    This talk provides an introduction to two projects that have formed the core of my research over the past decade: the Synthetic Collective and the Centre for...

  7. Energy Cafe: Turkey's Climate Dilemma

    Energy Cafe: Turkey's Climate Dilemma

    Navigating the Electricity Sector through Italy's Largest Energy Community

    Turkey's climate policy reveals a complex mix of low targets and contradictory promises. Despite being one of the world's top 20 greenhouse gas...

  8. Environmental struggles in the Andean-Amazonian socio-ecological system

    Environmental struggles in the Andean-Amazonian socio-ecological system

    Wildfires devour the Amazon. Devastating droughts affect Andean populations, crops and wildlife. These phenomena are interconnected and, to a high degree,...

  9. Fusion Science and Ethical Challenges

    Fusion Science and Ethical Challenges

    Presented by Piero Martin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova In recent times controlled thermonuclear fusion has attracted significant...

  10. Energy Cafe: Decarbonising Energy Systems

    Energy Cafe: Decarbonising Energy Systems

    From Materials Chemistry to Deployment

    Speaker Dr Robert Price. Research Fellow, St Andrews University School of Chemistry Abstract Decarbonisation of domestic and industrial energy systems is...